When Patricia Dowd passed away last February, no one knew it was from Covid-19. She was 57 and very active, her brother said. Dowd had come down with…
Continue Reading As a Pittsburgher by birth, I’ve got a lot of hometown pride. (Just ask anyone who’s ever met me.) I love Heinz Ketchup, the Pirates, the…
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President Joe Biden’s team is promising new guidance on school reopenings next week. But even as more Covid-19 vaccine shots go into arms two…
Continue Reading Johnson & Johnson officially asked the US Food and Drug Administration for an emergency use authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine Thursday,…
Continue Reading The United States has seen progress on several fronts against Covid-19 this week — including the opening of new mass inoculation sites and a…
Continue Reading It’s Super Bowl weekend — a moment that many people, at the start of the season, did not think we’d ever see. After all, when the…
Continue Reading Four leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold baby food that contained high levels of toxic heavy metals, according to internal company…
Continue Reading The 45-year-old patient had been sick with coronavirus for months. Doctors had given him the antiviral drug remdesivir to fight the virus,…
Continue Reading Back in March, a doctor at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found himself swearing at his television set. He was watching a news…
Continue Reading Mask mandates can work, according to research released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday. One new study showed that, in places…
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The debate over when and how and whether to put American kids back in school is taking on a predictably partisan tinge in Washington, with…
Continue Reading Vaccines are being rolled out in phases, and each state decides precisely who is eligible for each phase in its jurisdiction. When can YOU get the…
Continue Reading It’s called COVAX — and it may be the best hope in vaccinating the world. The relative obscurity of this vaccine program belies its…
Continue Reading You might be among the more than 26.6 million people in the United States who have had Covid-19 — and when it comes to coronavirus vaccines,…
Continue Reading It’s called COVAX — and it may be the best hope in vaccinating the world. The relative obscurity of this vaccine program belies its…
Continue Reading It was negative 13 degrees Celsius (8.6 degrees Fahrenheit) when Lorelou Desjardins took a break from her workday to take a walk on the frozen lake…
Continue Reading It might be surprising to people who think of football players training only in the weight room or on the field, but yoga has been a mainstay in the…
Continue Reading The Covid-19 variant first identified in the UK is spreading in the US and could become dominant as the country races to administer vaccines, Dr.…
Continue Reading There is some encouraging news in the fight against Covid-19 as more vaccines are being distributed and several states announced they will ease…
Continue Reading People who are part of the LGBTQ community may be more vulnerable to getting Covid-19 and may be more susceptible to a severe form of Covid-19,…
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